How big is your TV?
More importantly, when viewing it, does it fill at least twenty degrees of your field of vision? Is the image resolution greater than 1080p? If so, Congratulations! You're one of the ten people who might actually be able to discern 3D on such a device. Of course, you're going to have to get rid of it so you can buy a new device actually capable of rendering in 3D. Oh, and you'll have to wear polarized glasses so that you can properly see the image being rendered, and you probably want to sit in a really dark room because by definition, polarized lenses block around half the light available, so things will look a good deal darker.
Stupid thing is that i'm also old enough to remember what it was like when Color TVs made it big. Let me say up front that Color TV was a bigger deal. Color introduced something that wasn't there, that was decidedly lacking, and was overused to the great detriment of fashion and interior design for a decade. (Wonder why avocado, red and gold were big colors for rugs and appliances? Because they showed up great next to green pants suits on color TVs of the time.) With 3D images, you get… well, lied to.
Having tried a 3D monitor recently, i got to see what the hype was about. Items in the foreground were in crisp focus while items in the background were not. Fairly cool, at first, but then, i couldn't shift focus to those items. (i could shift focus slightly to things that were just in front or just behind the main focus, but things that were several feet away were still blurred.) In effect, i got the amazing 3D sense of seeing my hand above a keyboard but still not able to focus on the screen. What's more, moving from side to side didn't "turn" the image. Not horribly surprising since it's not a hologram, but still fairly disappointing.
Basically, in the upcoming years, you're going to have to spend a whole lot of money to get an ultra-sharp, deeply rendered equivalent of an SCTV skit. What's even worse is that with the rush to put "3D" shows out, we're going to have a lot of rocks being thrown at our heads. (Seriously, aren't most 3D extravaganzas basically excuses for trying to virtually poke your eyes out?) Kind of the focal equivalent of earth tone shag carpeting. And who doesn't love that? (Other than anyone who can remember the 70's?)
Yeah, no wonder all the top tech geeks are so excited by this huge boon.
